#ealing

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#background #because #blues #dealing #decided

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#appealing #approach #dear #dissolution #endeavouring

If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#dealing #fine #hamper #other #people

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#concealing #engage #find #game #government

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#kings #many #said #sealing #ships

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. ↗

— Chanakya

#cut #dealings #down #forest #going

If you can deny your talents, if you can conceal them from others or, even better, persuade yourself that they weren’t even given to you, you’re off the hook. And being off the hook is a key element of the industrialized school’s promise. It lets parents off the hook, certainly, since the institution takes over the teaching. It lets teachers off the hook, since the curriculum is preordained and the results are tested. And it lets students off the hook, because the road is clearly marked and the map is handed to everyone. If you stay on the path, do your college applications through the guidance office and your job hunting at the placement office, the future is not your fault. That’s the refrain we hear often from frustrated job seekers, frustrated workers with stuck careers, and frustrated students in too much debt. 'I did what they told me to do and now I’m stuck and it’s not my fault.' What they’ve exchanged for that deniability is their dreams, their chance for greatness. To go off the path is to claim responsibility for what happens next. ↗

— Seth Godin

#dreams

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' ↗

— George Clooney

#appealing #asked #get #getting #i

Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy. ↗

— Jim Costa

#believe #border #border security #comprehensive #contributing

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#art #artist #dealing #every #feels